WINTERPARK TRAVELS

Hello Tree Huggers! As some of you have requested me to blog while I am away in Winter Park. Today was considered a travel day and as some of you might know they are pretty boring. Since the majority of the team is away at other races we rented a van and towed a trailer. There are only three girls going from Park City comparing to the usual ten. Overall the day went well and here is how it all went down.

Photo Creds to our coach Tina Nardi!

Trips always begin with equipment preparation and packing the night before. Sometimes we use travel wax to protect our skis during travel then re-wax for the race. Usually for trips over 10 hours. Packing includes all your ski gear, either packed into a boot or duffle bag, then your personal needs and tuning gear. It may not seem like much, but if you aren't careful you might as well bring another human along. Then you get a full night sleep and depending on the time of travel leave between 6 am and noon.

For Winter Park, we loaded the van and trailer at 8:40am departing at 9:00, but knowing our team we didn't leave until approximately 9:30. So, that was the coaches fault. Wait who's fault? Oh right the coach was actually the only one late...when does that ever happen! The trip lasted about 7 hours which is about average. This time we are staying in a house which is actually really nice and modern. Not a house you would expect as a nightly rental especially for a ski team. Find pictures and information on the house at Trulia.When we arrived, Jason made a team dinner of spaghetti and salad, we went to the grocery store for lunch and breakfast meals, and scraped GS skis for tomorrows race. I'm running 19!

BISOUS,
LYSS